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Arria V Device Overview
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The Arria
®
V device family consists of the most comprehensive offerings of mid-range FPGAs ranging from
the lowest power for 6 gigabits per second (Gbps) and 10 Gbps applications, to the highest mid-range FPGA
bandwidth 12.5 Gbps transceivers.
The Arria V devices are ideal for power-sensitive wireless infrastructure equipment, 20G/40G bridging,
switching, and packet processing applications, high-definition video processing and image manipulation,
and intensive digital signal processing (DSP) applications.
Related Information
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Lists the planned updates to the
Arria V Device Handbook
chapters.
Key Advantages of Arria V Devices
Table 1: Key Advantages of the Arria V Device Family
Advantage
Supporting Feature
Lowest static power in its class
• Built on TSMC's 28 nm process technology and includes an
abundance of hard intellectual property (IP) blocks
• Power-optimized MultiTrack routing and core architecture
• Up to 50% lower power consumption than the previous
generation device
• Lowest power transceivers of any midrange family
• 8-input adaptive logic module (ALM)
• Up to 38.38 megabits (Mb) of embedded memory
• Variable-precision digital signal processing (DSP) blocks
• Serial data rates up to 12.5 Gbps
• Hard memory controllers
Improved logic integration and
differentiation capabilities
Increased bandwidth capacity
Hard processor system (HPS) with
• Tight integration of a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore
®
™
integrated ARM Cortex -A9 MPCore
processor, hard IP, and an FPGA in a single Arria V system-on-
processor
a-chip (SoC)
• Supports over 128 Gbps peak bandwidth with integrated data
coherency between the processor and the FPGA fabric
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Summary of Arria V Features
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Advantage
Supporting Feature
Lowest system cost
• Requires as few as four power supplies to operate
• Available in thermal composite flip chip ball-grid array (BGA)
packaging
• Includes innovative features such as Configuration via Protocol
(CvP), partial reconfiguration, and design security
Summary of Arria V Features
Table 2: Summary of Features for Arria V Devices
Feature
Description
Technology
• TSMC's 28-nm process technology:
• Arria V GX, GT, SX, and ST—28-nm low power (28LP) process
• Arria V GZ—28-nm high performance (28HP) process
• Lowest static power in its class (less than 1.2 W for 500K logic elements (LEs)
at 85°C junction under typical conditions)
• 0.85 V, 1.1 V, or 1.15 V core nominal voltage
Packaging
• Thermal composite flip chip BGA packaging
• Multiple device densities with identical package footprints for seamless
migration between different device densities
• Leaded
(1)
, lead-free (Pb-free), and RoHS-compliant options
High-performance FPGA fabric • Enhanced 8-input ALM with four registers
• Improved routing architecture to reduce congestion and improve compilation
time
Internal memory blocks
• M10K—10-kilobits (Kb) memory blocks with soft error correction code
(ECC) (Arria V GX, GT, SX, and ST devices only)
• M20K—20-Kb memory blocks with hard ECC (Arria V GZ devices only)
• Memory logic array block (MLAB)-640-bit distributed LUTRAM where you
can use up to 50% of the ALMs as MLAB memory
(1)
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Summary of Arria V Features
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Feature
Description
Variable-precision • Native support for up to four signal processing precision
DSP
levels:
• Three 9 x 9, two 18 x 18, or one 27 x 27 multiplier
in the same variable-precision DSP block
• One 36 x 36 multiplier using two variable-precision
DSP blocks (Arria V GZ devices only)
• 64-bit accumulator and cascade for systolic finite
impulse responses (FIRs)
• Embedded internal coefficient memory
• Preadder/subtractor for improved efficiency
Memory controller DDR3 and DDR2
(Arria V GX, GT,
SX, and ST only)
Embedded Hard IP blocks
Embedded
transceiver I/O
• Custom implementation:
• Arria V GX and SX devices—up to 6.5536 Gbps
• Arria V GT and ST devices—up to 10.3125 Gbps
• Arria V GZ devices—up to 12.5 Gbps
• PCI Express
®
(PCIe
®
) Gen2 (x1, x2, or x4) and Gen1
(x1, x2, x4, or x8) hard IP with multifunction support,
endpoint, and root port
• PCIe Gen3 (x1, x2, x4, or x8) support (Arria V GZ only)
• Gbps Ethernet (GbE) and XAUI physical coding
sublayer (PCS)
• Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) PCS
• Gigabit-capable passive optical network (GPON) PCS
• 10-Gbps Ethernet (10GbE) PCS (Arria V GZ only)
• Serial RapidIO
®
(SRIO) PCS
• Interlaken PCS (Arria V GZ only)
Clock networks
• Up to 650 MHz global clock network
• Global, quadrant, and peripheral clock networks
• Clock networks that are not used can be powered down to reduce dynamic
power
• High-resolution fractional PLLs
• Precision clock synthesis, clock delay compensation, and zero delay buffering
(ZDB)
• Integer mode and fractional mode
• LC oscillator ATX transmitter PLLs (Arria V GZ only)
Phase-locked loops (PLLs)
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Summary of Arria V Features
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Feature
Description
FPGA General-purpose I/Os • 1.6 Gbps LVDS receiver and transmitter
(GPIOs)
• 800 MHz/1.6 Gbps external memory interface
• On-chip termination (OCT)
• 3.3 V support
(2)
External Memory Interface
Memory interfaces with low latency:
• Hard memory controller-up to 1.066 Gbps
• Soft memory controller-up to 1.6 Gbps
Low-power high-speed serial • 600 Mbps to 12.5 Gbps integrated transceiver speed
interface
• Less than 105 mW per channel at 6 Gbps, less than 165 mW per channel at
10 Gbps, and less than 170 mW per channel at 12.5 Gbps
• Transmit pre-emphasis and receiver equalization
• Dynamic partial reconfiguration of individual channels
• Physical medium attachment (PMA) with soft PCS that supports 9.8304 Gbps
CPRI (Arria V GT and ST only)
• PMA with hard PCS that supports up to 9.8 Gbps CPRI (Arria V GZ only)
• Hard PCS that supports 10GBASE-R and 10GBASE-KR (Arria V GZ only)
HPS
(Arria V SX and ST devices
only)
• Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor-up to 800 MHz maximum
frequency with support for symmetric and asymmetric multiprocessing
• Interface peripherals—10/100/1000 Ethernet media access control (EMAC)
, USB 2.0 On-The-GO (OTG) controller, quad serial peripheral interface
(QSPI) flash controller, NAND flash controller, Secure Digital/MultiMedi-
aCard (SD/MMC) controller, UART, serial peripheral interface (SPI), I2C
interface, and up to 85 HPS GPIO interfaces
• System peripherals—general-purpose timers, watchdog timers, direct memory
access (DMA) controller, FPGA configuration manager, and clock and reset
managers
• On-chip RAM and boot ROM
• HPS–FPGA bridges—include the FPGA-to-HPS, HPS-to-FPGA, and
lightweight HPS-to-FPGA bridges that allow the FPGA fabric to issue
transactions to slaves in the HPS, and vice versa
• FPGA-to-HPS SDRAM controller subsystem—provides a configurable
interface to the multiport front end (MPFE) of the HPS SDRAM controller
• ARM CoreSight
™
JTAG debug access port, trace port, and on-chip trace
storage
(2)
Arria V GZ devices support 3.3 V with a 3.0 V V
CCIO
.
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Feature
Description
Configuration
• Tamper protection-comprehensive design protection to protect your valuable
IP investments
• Enhanced advanced encryption standard (AES) design security features
• CvP
• Partial and dynamic reconfiguration of the FPGA
• Active serial (AS) x1 and x4, passive serial (PS), JTAG, and fast passive parallel
(FPP) x8, x16, and x32 (Arria V GZ) configuration options
• Remote system upgrade
Arria V Device Variants and Packages
Table 3: Device Variants for the Arria V Device Family
Variant
Description
Arria V GX
FPGA with integrated 6.5536 Gbps transceivers that provides bandwidth, cost,
and power levels that are optimized for high-volume data and signal-processing
applications
FPGA with integrated 10.3125 Gbps transceivers that provides enhanced high-
speed serial I/O bandwidth for cost-sensitive data and signal processing
applications
FPGA with integrated 12.5 Gbps transceivers that provides enhanced high-speed
serial I/O bandwidth for high-performance and cost-sensitive data and signal
processing applications
SoC with integrated ARM-based HPS and 6.5536 Gbps transceivers
SoC with integrated ARM-based HPS and 10.3125 Gbps transceivers
Arria V GT
Arria V GZ
Arria V SX
Arria V ST
Arria V GX
This section provides the available options, maximum resource counts, and package plan for the Arria V GX
devices.
The information in this section is correct at the time of publication. For the latest information and to get
more details, refer to the Altera Product Selector.
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